Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers

Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21T14:54:34Z

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > btw., the way i tested this in the past (and which i dont have time
> > to test right now) is that i took a plain Fedora box with a regular
> > rpm kernel booted up and typed:
> >
> > make localyesconfig
> >
> > and built it and then 1) checked the size of the .config (it should
> > be much smaller than allyesconfig) and 2) tried to boot the
> > resulting bzImage.
>
> Did you check the size without the # comments?

hm, i dont remember precisely - but maybe i only considered the size
of the file. Your patch would expand everything and then turn off
the leafs, leaving a large (but still small ;-) .config in place,
right?

> > It either didnt boot in the past, or had a very large .config.
> > It would be nice if you could check whether it does on a box of
> > yours. (maybe you already did that!)
>
> I went back to your old config and I could not reproduce it. But I'll try
> again with a new kernel rpm, and do the following:
>
> # rpm -Uvh <some new kernel>
> # reboot # to that new kernel
> $ git clone <latest-linus.git> linus.git
> $ cd linus.git
> $ make localyesconfig
>
> and see what happens. Is this a good test for you?

Yes, of course. The whole patch-set is lovely and the sooner we put
this upstream the better.

Ingo